Claychicks Boutique

If you know us at all, you know that one of the Claychicks (that would be Carolyn) had twins at the end of 2007! Lovely, healthy twins - a boy and a girl, Gavin and Maddie. At the same time, her Carpal Tunnel Syndrome kicked into overtime so now that she has a little chance to clay, she is having trouble doing more than just the bare minimum.

Ack!

She had a brain wave though Like a lot of us caners she has stacks of canes in not-perfect-for-sale sizes. Little short pieces, unreduced chunks, you name it… Lots of pieces that aren’t ends but aren’t our regular 1/2″ wide by 2″ long pieces. So she collected tubs of these in 1.5oz amounts and called them her Grab Bags.

You can check Carolyn’s Grab Bags out on our Etsy - I set it up as two listings, so that Etsy would stop counting the sales as one sale (instead of 8 or 10! the silly thing). These are duplicate listings for a total of 7 bags of cane goodness in Caro’s designs:

If you like a variety of good stuff, these are the perfect way to give canes a try!

It has been a busy, busy few months! One of the Claychicks (we’ll call her Chirp ) had twins! A healthy boy and girl join our flock. The other one of us got sidetracked with offline, un-clay activities.

Spring being a season for new things has brought us back to an old but loved one - our clay! Look for all new listings on our Etsy and new clay related ramblings on here.

We’re happy to include links back to our clay friends in our blogroll and to profile you right on here for added friendly promotion and fun.

Hi Everyone!

It has been very quiet around here…so I figured I would give y’all an update on what is going on.  Elaine has been MIA with computer issues for most of the summer, making communication difficult.  Hopefully she is claying up a storm so we have stock in the shop soon!

I am pregnant and expecting twins in January.  This has not been an easy pregnancy, and issues such as severe carpal tunnel syndrome have resulted in me having to put clay on the back burner for now.  I hope once the babies are here and we get into a routine I will be back in the swing of things and able to return to making canes..I do miss it SO MUCH!

Hopefully things will return to normal soon!!

The USPS raised it’s rates this Monday, May 14. For domestic shipping, the price changes on our ebay / etsy items is small: $.25

The price change for shipping to International locations changed rather more and we’re still working on some solutions so that we don’t have to inflict the 400%+ increase on our customers. If you buy something from The Claychicks and you need it shipped out of the US, contact us so we can figure something out please!

The Claychicks sell polymer clay goodness - canes and beads, mostly. The little designs are lovely, interesting and fun (in our humble opinions) but for a new clayer, or an interested crafter, they’re a bit of an enigma!

Enter our How-to category!

We’ve collected an awful lot of links, trivia and info over the last few years of claying and we’ll neaten it up, write it up and post it here as a helpful resource. The How-to category will include the useful tips - storage, finishing, getting the most out of your canes - for our customers as well as some ideas on how to use them. Links to projects will be added or projects written.

The end goal is a useful resource to help our customers or any interested person. We love our clay and we’re happy to share why!

Outside Links:

• PolymerClayCentral.com and it’s message board on Delphi
• Glassattic.com is the encyclopedia of all clay related trivia!
• Craftster.org has a clay related board and a dizzying amount of crafty awesomeness

Like all the cool chicks we’ve got a blog!